From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-07-20T20:49:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a replacement for sub?

On 7/20/07, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/20/07, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was reading this whole thread and I kind of think to be dreaming, I
> > must have missed something obvious!!!
> > Anyway maybe this is was OP wants, well I think it is ;)
> >
> > 529/29 > irb
> > irb(main):001:0> a='a b c d e f'
> > => "a b c d e f"
> > irb(main):002:0> a.gsub!(" ","")
>
> Nope, he wants a method that only replaces the first n occurrences of
> the pattern. gsub will not do this - you need to run sub in a loop.
> (This is where perl's "continue matching where you left off" would
> have been a nice optimisation)

I knew I missed something but I did not see what, sorry....
>
> martin
>
>


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